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- Gartner: Web 2.0 to make waves in enterprise
- Gartner: Web 2.0 to make waves in enterpriseGartner strikes againWhen are people going to learn that Gartner group knows NOTHING about what is going to happen in the future. This is the same group that predicts explosive growth in US computer careers one week, then the next week says...
- Tags: AJAX, Web 2.0, Gartner Inc., flashy term, advanced use, AJAX Web 2.0, push technology, current technology, tech industry, Web
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- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Looking at single atoms of hydrogen
- As you probably know, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms packed in a dense two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. And it recently became very popular recently as a basis for ultra-fast transistors. Now, according to Science News, U.S. researchers are using graphene to image individual hydrogen atoms via a standard...
- Tags: Atom, Researcher, Hydrogen, Carbon, Here, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft
- Open-source Castle Project founder joins MicrosoftI've always been curious about the uptake of Iron*Its a strategy that seems to follow the same mistake MS is making on the web...."If we offer OUR version they will come". It seems to me that ASP.Net attracts a certain type of person just like...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Scripting languages, open source, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Spam coming from free email providers increasing
- Spam coming from free email providers increasingSpamit is a problem, when recieve spam the TO: has additional accounts on my free email. there should be a way for the free email t block those sending to the same free email. it's CRAZYFree E-mail services should be held responsible...for keeping their...
- Tags: Spam, free email company, spammer, e-mail company, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- The perils of information overload
- Employees from technology companies including Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and Google have banded together to combat information overload, which they call "the world's greatest challenge to productivity." As the new nonprofit Information Overload Research Group gets off the ground, CNET News intern Holly Jackson hit the streets of San Francisco...
- Tags: News, holly jackson, google, ibm, dell, intel, cell phones, internet, email, iphone, apple, information, overload, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....
- Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Legg Mason Inc., Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Taking the digital billboard to the next level
- Do you think a 10-story building wrapped in your company's video would help get your message across? That's the goal of San Francisco-based marketing company Obscura Digital. Besides cool projection technology, the company is exploring touch and interactive tech to help advertise products with pop.
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, obscura digital, video domes, igoogle, marketing, san francisco, video projection, touch, screens
- Videos 2008-07-18
- The Dark Knight IMAX
- The Dark Knight hits the big, big screen, and we talk to Greg Foster, the president of IMAX to get his take on the technology behind the film.
- Tags: Film, Dark Knight, News
- Videos 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Immobile Apple
- It's 11:33 a.m. Friday. Approximately 66 and a half hours since Apple Support acknowledged receipt of my request for help on syncing calendar and contact data from my iMac to the "cloud,'' i.e., MobileMe servers wherever they are. Re-request sent after 48 hours. Still...
- Tags: Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soon
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soonMedia Center may be best MS appMedia Center is by far the app I use most on my PC. When you're in MC, you don't even realize you're using a computer. Yes, there are some missing features, but it a joy to...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), TVs, Digital media, TV Pack, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TV, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Center TV Pack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'
- How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...
- Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Is Microsoft fighting an unwinnable war with its online business and search obsession? It's a valid question and one that needs to be asked. At some point you have to wonder if Microsoft's Google envy is its Vietnam. As Mary Jo Foley noted Microsoft's answer to its...
- Tags: Business, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
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